Importer Told to Recall Chinese Tires(More Chicom Junk!)

breitbart.com ^ | Jun 25 , 2007 | JEFFREY GOLD

[hunter112]

Somebody of my aquaintance, a few years back, made up little pressure sensitive labels that said “PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS ITEM WILL BE USED TO INCINERATE YOUR CHILDREN”, and then had a lot of fun applying them right next to the MADE IN CHINA labels on all of the stuff at his local WalMart.

Wow.

That's a lot of labels...

[Muleteam1]

>>Foreign Tire Sales Inc., of Union, said an unknown number of the light truck radials it imported since 2002 from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co., of Hangzhou, China, could suffer tread separation, a problem that led to the nation's largest tire recall in 2000.<<

Hmmm, did Firestone move to China?

[randog]

FTS will file and be out of business in days. Who is the owner?

Given that they're just an office that arranges drop shipments from the manufacturer, I suspect that they're wholly owned by the Chinese manufacturer. IOW, good luck suing for damages.

[ears_to_hear]

more here

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856148/posts

[Dick Bachert]

(And before someone asks, I will post this until the idiots in government alter this insane and now dangerous UNILATERAL trade policy with China and the fools in the multinationals STOP exporting the production of EVERYTHING to China and bring those jobs home. As you think about that, recall that in ancient times, the Romans and others would catapult disease-riddled corpses over the walls of cities they besieged to sicken and kill the enemy. The Chinese know that history even if we obviously have forgotten it. (Get my drift there?)

On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.

BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND JOIN CHINA’S NEW MONIED ELITE!

Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”

Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!!

These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”

Our motto will be “We won’t GIVE you any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”

AND LOOK FOR A NEW DROP-DEAD MONEY-MAKER COMING SOON. SOYLENT YELLOW PROMISES TO BE BIG

[kellynla]

“I buy absolutely nothing from the chicoms. Drives my wife nuts sometimes, but she is catching on.”

and if you’re interested in buying MADE IN USA
here are some websites
http://www.usstuff.com
http://www.madeinusa.org
http://www.buyamericanmart.com

[pissant]

Got ‘em bookmarked. Thanks.

[Segovia]

Damn! I had a set of those tires put on my car last fall in the middle of the first ice storm-—the only thing left in the tire shop that would fit my SUV, and I’ve been saying for the last several months that I’m going to buy another set when these ware out, because they are absolutely the best tires I’ve had in ten years. They still, after 20000 mi still have most of their tread, never spun or skid, and never even required air added! I ware out a lot of tires, (usually at above 70mph) and usually buy Firestones or Michelins. Why would you suppose this is?

[glorgau]

FTS deserves whatever hurt they have coming to them, up to and including getting sued into the poorhouse.

IANAL, but as I have been told, the directors of the firm bear personal legal responsibility. The corporate shield is not impenetrable.

[kellynla]

ya reeeeely have to check tires these days...

even many of the Good Years, Firestones etc. are made overseas or south of the border.

if you’re looking for snow tires ya might check these out
MADE IN USA
http://www.greendiamond.com

but you really have to do your homework when it comes to tires...consumer reports & consumer digest

[kellynla]

oops wrong link for green diamond tires
here it is
http://www.greendiamondtire.com

[metmom]

NOT York Peppermint Patties! NOOOOO!!!!!

[kevinw]

Let’s send all the goods made in China back to China.

[TheMole]

...safety officials have ordered a tiny tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires...

OK, maybe they're not Goodyear, but is half a million tires really a "tiny" operation? And, those are just the ones they have to recall -- I assume that they sold more than that.

[ridesthemiles]

And guess who will pay the price? The taxpayer.”

Global Markets-—yup—they work real well, don’t they?

Cannot insert production standards all over the world.
Food- Tires-Pet food-—doesn’t matter. Let them drive on their own tires. We need to make our own products-here- now.

[mom4kittys]

[sweetiepiezer]

“Hershey is moving their candy making to Mexico.”

They are also opening two plants overseas, one in India and one in China!!!!!